Rachel Biale grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel. She earned an M.A. in Jewish history at UCLA and an M.S.W. at Yeshiva University. She lives in Berkley, California, where she is a practicing psychotherapist.
"An amazing book—rich in scholarship, deep in historical
perspetice, and enormously interesting to anyone concerned with
questions of Jewish life."
—Anne Roiphe
“An essential resource and entry point for understanding the
construction of women’s roles in traditional Judaism.”
—Judith Plaskow, author of Standing Alone at Sinai
“With great precision and clarity, Biale ferrets out for us the
inner meaning of the law, traces its development, and explores its
relevance to Jewish women’s lives today.
—Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism
“[Biale] open[s] up the halakhic process to women, providing the
reader who is unfamiliar with the original Hebrew texts with her
first encounter of learning.”
—Hadassah
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